Motivational Quotes

Marriage

All marriages are mixed marriages.

- Chantal Saperstein

Best Quotes about Marriage

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

10.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

12.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

13.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

14.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

15.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

16.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

17.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

18.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

19.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

20.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

21.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

22.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

23.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

24.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

25.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

26.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

27.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

28.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

29.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

30.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

32.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

33.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

34.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

35.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

36.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

37.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

38.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

39.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

40.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

41.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

43.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

44.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

45.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

46.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

47.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

48.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

49.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

50.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.